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Reed Elsevier
Annual Report 2002
The Science & Medical business, now branded Elsevier, has had another
very successful year. Strong subscription renewals, growing online sales and a successful
medical book publishing programme have delivered revenue growth ahead of the market. The
successful integration of the Harcourt STM business and tight cost control has delivered
double digit underlying profit growth. Revenue increased from £1,024 million to £1,295
million.
AOL Time Warner scraps free-to-view
Online Publishing News, March 31st
AOL Time Warner has started to charge for online access to many of its flagship
magazines. Previously the content had been free to view for all comers; now only
subscribers to the journals and AOL members will have access.
WH Smith pulls out of AOL
Time Warner bid
The Canadian Press, March 28th
WH Smith PLC confirmed that preliminary discussions about its interest in
bidding for AOL Time Warner Book Group had come to an end.
Amazon.co.uk crippled by demand for PDA bargain
Silicon.com, March 19
The Amazon.co.uk website was closed due to a bargain-priced PAD
which was being sold for a fraction of the recommended retail price.
Thomson reaps rewards of online delivery
Online Publishing News, March 19th
Thomson has posted a 7% growth in revenue across the company, to US
$7.8bn and earnings before charges were up 15 per cent to US $2.1bn
EU
research performance
EU Press Release, March 17th
EU research performance comes under scrutiny with the publication of
the Third European Report on Science & Technology (S&T) Indicators 2003.
Online news-reading habits: the European perspective
Online Publishing News, March 17th
Different habits - Some 66 per cent of online Guardian readers in the
UK, for example, visit its online site, but 19 per cent also visit The Sun's site - a
newspaper that only seven per cent of them read offline.
The
Legal Deposit Libraries Bill
British Library, March 17th
The Legal Deposit Libraries Bill, a Private Members Bill introduced by
Chris Mole, Labour MP for Ipswich, has had a first reading in Parliament. The Bill will
ensure that electronic or e-publications and other non-print materials are saved as part
of the published archive.
BT launches additional broadband services
Euromedia, March 13
BT hopes the services it launches will see it to five million customers by 2006 by
establishing broadband as a value for money utility.
Amazon.com: the
web services trailblazer
Silicon.com, March 12
Amazon.com has fleshed out how it is using web services to drive sales and increase
profits, impressing experts familiar with this new model of computing.
Fewer textbook sales hit Pearson and Reed
Print source: The Times, 12 March
Plans by the Texas Education Authority to cut spending on textbooks by nearly 60
per cent affected the price of Reed and Pearson on the London stock exchange.
UK Patent Office Launches Educational Pack
Press Release, March 11th
The Patent Office has launched a comprehensive educational pack to help business
and design & technology students and teachers grasp the ins-and-outs of intellectual
property.
Indian tech boom 'under
threat'
BBC News, March 11
Rising wages and an appreciating currency could stem India's rise as a global software
power, a chief at tech giant Wipro has warned.
Online Publishers Association launches European
branch
Europemedia.net, March 10th
The Online Publishers Association has announced that is
setting up camp in Europe, with ten large European publishers founding OPA Europe,
including such high-profile names as the Financial Times, El Pais, Le Monde and Der
Spiegel.
Bertelsmann cuts publishing bidders
FT.com, March 7
Bertelsmann, the German media group, has cut the number of potential buyers of
BertelsmannSpringer, its professional publishing division, from 14 to six. It hopes to
raise about 1bn euros ($1.1bn)
Patent information has arrived
Information Today
Steve Adams of Magister reports on the EPIDOS Annual Conference 2002
World Book Day
6 March
On 6 March 2003 this site will host a "first" in World Book Day history, the
World Book Day Online Festival.
To celebrate World Book Day 2003, HarperCollins, in association with The Times,
is running a book promotion, which offers Times readers a 50% discount off a great
selection of titles (price includes postage and packing).
The annual Cyberstudy on E-commerce
Reuters , March 3
Europeans rival Americans as the Internet's biggest shopaholics. Forty-five percent of
European online consumers expect to purchase more products online, according to the study,
compared to 41 percent of Americans polled.
April 6, Boston
Search engine meeting (8th Annual meeting)
9-10 April, London
ready4growth
ready4growth is a 3 million Euro, two-year initiative supported by the European
Commission Directorate-General Information Society. The objective of the programme is to
provide practical guidance on critical growth issues affecting start-up and early stage
digital business in 5 European countries: UK, The Netherlands, Germany, Greece and Spain.
This is the programme's first FREE 2-day workshop delivered by industry leading experts
and speakers.
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